If you don't mind, I'd like to switch songs. I'd ordered a CD with a version of the song I was planning on using, only to find that it wasn't as good a remix as I'd hoped. So instead, I'd like to use the song (similar title, but different song) "All I Want for X-mas".
And about the official name of the project, I still like the name "The Christmas Project" the best. It's straightforward. If you really wanted other suggestions, the only thing I could think of would be something like "Project ChristmasMix". But the original name would still be my first choice.

About the War is over song, you might have noticed, but I'm really into that Celine Dion CD. I have tonnes of CDs and versions of the song, but Oh Holy Night and War Is Over are by far my favourites in all, and Celine Dion does them justice. Then again, everyone is free to choose the version he or she wants

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I probably like Celine Dion as well as you do and even have that chistmas CD (somewhere). ^_^ But I listened to a clip of the song to remind myself of it, and I think the tempo is a bit slow for my purposes. The music has to be able to keep up with the obligitory shots of fast moving mobile suits doing things ya know. I think I need something up to the tempo of the John Lennon version or faster.

Rumor has it that U2 did a cover of the song, so I'm trying to find a sample of that right now. However, the Jingle Bells? idea has refused to die...I may have been doomed from the moment my brain cast Marimeia as Miss Fanny Bright.

OtakuForLife wrote:Is ok to finish it way before-hand? Probally have this done beforenext tuesday.. Maybe wensday looking at a stack of dvds andsaying "what have I done". Anyway, this track is going to be dark humor

Err. scrach that reverse it.. It'll probally be done tonight or tomarrow night Having way too much fun finding scenes and I'm going for a "retro-look" Solid cuts and Transitions Gore.

Won't be able to participate now, my squadron just upped our ops tempo, I have no more free time

"I've spent the last ten years of my life defending my country, I've sacrificed for it, fought for it, and bled for it, now it's time I got something back, so please just respect me and my fellow Soldiers, Sailors, Airmen, and Marines as we continue to do this job." Americans sleep peacefully in their beds at night because brave men stand willing to do violence on their behalf

Deadline is getting closer, and I finally had the time to get some work done myself, with 2 slot finished (Mine and OtakuFireLifes') and many others in progress.

I would like anyone who is hast he word undecided next to his name, to message me with the missing information, iether song or anime by the end of this week. If he or she fails to read this message, I will Private Message them personally, so don't worry, you won't miss this for sure Unless you quit that is hehehe (*Maybe it's time I just shut up and keep going*)

Anyways ... lol, thats all for that

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Name: I thought about it for a loooooong while, and I really couldn't swollow the name The Christmas Project. I'm sorry for all those who liked it, but do you immagine having something like this happen maybe next year and call it The Christmas Project 2005 >.<

So it is finally official, the name is gonna be ...
*drumroll*
"The Xmas Effect" =^.^=

Intro: I still have no idea what to put up as an intro of the project. Actually I had the greatest plan going, but It's gonna take time. Yet, having the main slot done, I think I can take my time in working on it. After all theres still time for the deadline

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IMPORTANT

The sign up is not over, SO, if you know anyone that would like to join, or you WOULD like to join yourselves, don't hesitate. As seen in the first page of the thread, the requirments aren't very high hehe, and you don't need to make a 5 minute clip anyway. Anything christmasy that's up to human standards should do

So get a move on and sign up people !!!

"Uncle Ryu, Whats You!"

"Who said you'll be going to hell when you die.
.... you're already living it." - Zabuza

What it looks like to me is that Satoshi Kon and his animators decided to use this kind of jittery lighting effect, likely to look like fluorescent/dirty city lighting. It looks great, at it's native 29.97 fps progressive. Slow the video down to 24 fps, and you really start to notice the pixels bouncing around. So I'm a bit at a loss about how to filter this out. VagueDenoiser() made it look ugly. Msmooth() with high enough settings removes it, but it also removes snow....witch is a suboptimal solution. Deen() seems to remove some of it but not all; if the help files for it weren't a) extremely spase and b) in French, I might be able to figure out how to fix it. A strong enough temporal cleaner/smoother might be the ticket but I don't know what filter that would be....never needed one before.

How much of the footage are we talking about here? If it's just a few short scenes you may want to consider the msmooth filter then adding in snow in Premeire. It'd take a little work but as long as we aren't talking about the entire video it shouldn't be that bad

Okay I've at hard at work making my AMV for this project and looking for a job and doing school work and house chores and not sleeping much..... But what I want to know is do we make our own opening and closing credits or will the heads of this project make one for us? I have no problem either way.

"Suicide carried off many. Drink, and the devil, took care of the rest."